Over ** percent of all used car transactions in the United Kingdom in 2021 were petrol cars. Plug-in electric vehicles were at the bottom of the ranking, with just onver * battery-electric cars sold in the UK. Overall, the used vehicle market made up the majority of passenger car sales in the UK in 2021.
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